I just got off the road, and the Mars square Saturn equalled a massive airline snafu so that it took me 23 hours from the time I started for the airport on the East coast to the time I actually got home on the West coast, stranded at a remote city in between start and finish. I suppose I should have seen it coming, but my schedule was such that I couldn't leave earlier and didn't want to leave later. Oh well. And TSA airline security was extremely fascist. Now that the odyssey is over, I'll post more on what's coming in 2006 for all signs in the next few days. Happy New Year!

Venus just went stationary retrograde today, a great time to begin reflecting on values and relationships. This would include our relationship to money, wealth, and things in general, as well as why we value what we do in our relationships, and whether we're working off of old tapes, old hurts, old attachments, and old aversions in relationships that bear no resemblance to what we're living with today. As I mentioned in a previous article, we have the chance over the next few weeks to be liberated from adverse conditions by forms of "cosmic visitation" that will probably galvanize many into action.

This is a new look at an article of some importance, given that we're all dealing with karma all the time. Karma is very misunderstood, yet if approached as teaching us how to be our Higher Self, then what we have to do and how we have to do it becomes much clearer. Hopefully today's offering can give a new look and a deeper understanding of how to use that which teaches us to vault into a higher head and heart space. For your consideration, a notable reprint, How To Move Through Karmic Storms.

Today's post is a very special article written a while ago but you may have missed since it was the very first one when I transitioned to this new and improved website. Originally titled "Life Is A Rhythmic Dance," it is a take on what we learn and why we learn it. You may want to take a second or third look at it in light of what's come down since then, and enjoy learning to dance with life's rhythms since we're all living in an extraordinarily dynamic time. For your edification and enjoyment, Life Is A Rhythmic Dance.

Today is one of the two hardest days of the year for me. Take a moment to remember to cold turkey, gimme some truth in my life oh god, and since it's number 9 dream, it's real love, it won't be long and instant karma's gonna get you. I am the walrus, so anytime at all, regardless of the mind games, in a day in the life all you need is love and give peace a chance on this happy christmas while you're watching the wheels. Thank you John. Wish you were here. Aum and blessings, wherever you are across the universe.

From the most remarkable man to walk the Earth in many centuries, a thought from the Mahatma, a.k.a. "Great Spirit:"

In this age of wonders no one will say that a thing or idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult, is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible. We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence."

From The Magic of Space, part of a commentary that can help us get beyond the unfortunate karmas of erroneous perception and unhelpful thoughts and speech. This nugget is from Chapter 4, "Fear of Inner and Outer Space."

You must learn to discriminate between truth and falsehood, and you must learn to be true in thought, and word, and deed. There are many untrue thoughts in the world, and many superstitions, and one who is enslaved by them cannot make progress. Therefore you must not hold a thought simply because many other people hold it, or because it has been believed for centuries, but must think it through for yourself, and judge for yourself whether it is reasonable. Your thought about other people must also be true, and you must never think things of them that you do not really know to be true.